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  1. Old Hollywood Is New Again, At Least When It Comes to Eyewear

    Yesterday | James Wolcott

    ... that looks like it was plucked straight from a movie poster. Armani's plastic-trimmed frames call to mind Burt Lancaster's glasses from 1957's Sweet Smell of Success. Go to Armani.com. These Tory Burch sunglasses channel Audrey Hepburn's 1961 ...

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    Related Topix: Apparel, Audrey Hepburn

  2. The View from Writers' RoostRead the original story

    Thursday | Gilmer Mirror

    ... Gantry, a drunken, dishonest street preacher who latched on with a traveling tent revival, was portrayed by Burt Lancaster. FAITH HEALERS were held in low esteem in my 1950s teenage mind because of an incident that occurred with some octogenarian ...

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    Related Topix: Elmer Gantry, Drama Movies, Freestone County, TX, Oral Roberts University

  3. At the Dryden: Local HeroRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Mar 11 | Examiner.com

    ... executive to a man who is able to just enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Supporting him is acting legend Burt Lancaster, playing MacIntyre's boss. Enthusiastic as usual, Lancaster makes his boss character very warm and open-minded, rather than ...

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    Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Local Hero, Drama Movies, Theater, Arts, Peter Riegert

  4. My breakfast with BreitbartRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Mar 15 | Salon.com

    ... blog and we're reprinting it here: "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." -- Burt Lancaster as J. J. Hunsecker in "The Sweet Smell of Success" Following my breakfast with Breitbart , I spent the rest of the morning and ...

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    Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, Blog News, California, Film Noir, Sweet Smell of Success, Drama Movies

  5. My breakfast with BreitbartRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Mar 15 | Salon

    ... blog and we're reprinting it here: "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." --Burt Lancaster as J. J. Hunsecker in "The Sweet Smell of Success" Following my breakfast with Breitbart , I spent the rest of the morning and ...

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    Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, Blog News, California, Film Noir, Sweet Smell of Success, Drama Movies

  6. Breakfast with BreitbartRead the original story w/Photo

    Sunday Mar 14 | Salon.com

    ... Republican Party Spring Convention. "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." --Burt Lancaster as J. J. Hunsecker in "The Sweet Smell of Success" Following my breakfast with Breitbart , I spent the rest of the morning and ...

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    Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, Film Noir, Sweet Smell of Success, Drama Movies

  7. Weekly DVD Alert Fifteen: March 15-March 22, 2010Read the original story

    Sunday Mar 14 | The Unofficial John Westmoreland Memorial Tribute Webring

    ... Dassin thriller about some convicts preparing to smash their way off the drain-pipe detail and on to freedom. Burt Lancaster [in, I think, his feature-film debut], Vince Barnett and Hume Cronyn star. 6AM-8AM, FMC: NIGHTMARE ALLEY, 110m. Tyrone ...

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    Related Topix: 9, Film Noir, Horror Movies, Midnight, Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Brute Force, Thriller, Hume Cronyn, Nightmare Alley

  8. 'Elmer Gantry' tells American tale via American music

    Saturday Mar 13 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    ... satirical 1926 Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name, a story many Americans know from the 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster. "The book is really the great American novel about religion," Garfein said, "but we both felt that you don't find that in ...

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    Related Topix: Elmer Gantry, Drama Movies, Arts, Opera, Italy, World News, Toscana, Italy, Florence, Italy, Milwaukee, WI, Entertainment

  9. From Here to EternityRead the original story

    Tuesday Mar 9 | The Village Voice

    Dir. Fred Zinnemann . This quintessential service drama, set on an Oahu army base in late 1941, exemplifies something that ended with The Godfather -a sprawling bestseller transformed into all-star Oscar-bait. The acting bonanza includes Frank Sinatra's comeback turn, cast-against-type perfs by Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed, Burt Lancaster's tough ...

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    Related Topix: From Here to Eternity, War Movies, Drama Movies, Frank Sinatra, Jazz

  10. Unscripted: 'Elmer Gantry'Read the original story

    Tuesday Mar 9 | Mokena Messenger

    ... I wasn't about to move. I watched the last half of "From Here to Eternity," and when I realized that another Burt Lancaster movie was going to come on, also airing uncut and uninterrupted, and based on a Sinclair Lewis novel, I knew I wasn't going ...

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    Related Topix: Elmer Gantry, Drama Movies, Entertainment, Drama, Television, From Here to Eternity, War Movies, Oscars

  11. Culture 101: How to watch movies like a film critic -- focus on the stageRead the original story

    Thursday Mar 4 | Examiner.com

    ... the Sweet Smell of Success (1957), a sleazeball press agent (Tony Curtis) and sociopathic gossip columnist (Burt Lancaster) played so far against type that audiences ignored the film for years. Snappy dialogue and crisp direction at its best.

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    Related Topix: Cameras, Film Noir, Sweet Smell of Success, Drama Movies, Events

  12. Old Ass Oscar: Elmer GantryRead the original story w/Photo

    Sunday Mar 7 | Film School Rejects

    ... changing tide in America or one of its causes. The story follows the titular character, played by an on-fire Burt Lancaster, as he fast talks his way into preaching at revivals and into the silk stockings of Sister Falconer (Jean Simmons). He's ...

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    Related Topix: Elmer Gantry, Drama Movies, Oscars, Arts, Literature, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  13. Down with the sickness? Go HollywoodRead the original story

    Thursday Mar 4 | Erie Times-News

    ... just how excellent "Eternity" is; no wonder it won eight Oscars, including best picture. What a cast! Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine and Deborah Kerr all star in a melodrama on the eve of Pearl Harbor. ...

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    Related Topix: War Movies, Drama Movies, From Here to Eternity, Opinion

  14. Film Underground Presents: "From Here to Eternity"

    Thursday Mar 4 | The New Hampshire

    ... several soldiers stationed in Hawaii. The movie was based on the popular novel by James Jones. Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, and many other familiar names play the main roles in the film, and the action takes place in the months leading up to the ...

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    Related Topix: From Here to Eternity, War Movies, Drama Movies, Frank Sinatra, Jazz

  15. Principal keeps promise, kisses yak

    Wednesday Mar 3 | Orange Co. Register

    ORANGE The kiss was not "From Here to Eternity" but then again, neither Burt Lancaster nor Deborah Kerr had to kiss Flower the Yak.

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    Related Topix: From Here to Eternity, War Movies, Drama Movies, Orange, CA, Deborah Kerr

  16. Littwin: Some stories still waiting to be told . . . somewhereRead the original story

    Saturday Feb 27 | Denver Post

    ... bottle hidden in a desk drawer. No banging typewriters. No ringing teletypes. I wanted to tell her what Burt Lancaster said in the movie "Atlantic City" when he was looking out at the ocean: You shoulda seen it in the old days. I got my first ...

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  17. Between Reviews: Mass AttacksRead the original story w/Photo

    Saturday Feb 27 | DesiPundit

    ... on a refreshingly offbeat plot for a mass-hero entertainer - " part Vengeance Valley (the glancingly noirish Burt Lancaster Western about a rancher taking in an orphan) and part King Lear (with sons instead of daughters, with only one loyal amongst ...

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  18. Hollywood's shocking reel IndiansRead the original story

    Tuesday Feb 23 | Macleans

    ... breed. Traditionally they were white actors in bronze body paint, such as Anthony Quinn ( The Plainsman ), Burt Lancaster ( Apache ) and Chuck Connors ( Geronimo ). But even some of Hollywood's most famous "real" Indians had a fake pedigree. Buffalo ...

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  19. Valentine movie night suggestions that husbands will enjoy too

    Feb 11, 2010 | Examiner.com

    ... on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. Set in Hawaii with Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine..what a cast. The African Queen: Katherine Hepburn ...

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    Related Topix: From Here to Eternity, War Movies, Drama Movies, It's a Wonderful Life, Donna Reed, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift

  20. Film festival ends on evil noteRead the original story w/Photo

    Feb 1, 2010 | Examiner.com

    ... for four Oscars. January 11 : The Killers (1946) An investigator unravels the mystery of a small-town murder. Burt Lancaster's film debut, with Ava Gardner. Based on an Ernest Hemmingway story. January 18 : "Scram. We're taking a week off" January ...

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    Related Topix: Gothic, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Film Noir, The Killers, Crime Movies, Drama Movies